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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Spectrum Scale CNSA - add more configuration options to cluster CRD

    During our implementation phase of Spectrum Scale CNSA on OpenShift clusters we identify that current options in the cluster CRD are not sufficient for various use-cases. So it will be great to configure at least number of replicas and resources f...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Capacity quota support for HSM managed file systems

    We have two storage scale file systems which are HSM managed using Spectrum Protect for space Management. In total we are storing ~40 PB user data on tape here. Each group has been granted an amount of files and capacity for all our file systems. ...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Support TLS 1.3 for use with IBM SKLM

    Industry is requiring stronger current encryption levels.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    CES NFS - health event if FD hard limit is above the threshold

    Ganesha NFS server has a limit of max. open files, which is calculated by 80% of the maxFilesToCache parameter. If Ganesha Server is reaching this limit, Ganesha NFS server will stop working and all NFS clients will loose access to data. In curren...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA & OpenShift w/two network adapters

    Client has existing big Spectrum Scale infrastructure (not-containerized) with hundreds clients connected from different environments. Spectrum Scale is using dedicated not routed VLAN for daemon-interface network following IBM best practice. Ther...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Allow use of directory other then /tmp for GPFS temporary files.

    We use GPFS / Spectrum Storage on our High Performance Computing Cluster for it's primary file system and use various mm* commands to monitor the health of the cluster and alert us if GPFS goes offline on a node. If a users HPC compute job inadver...
    11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

    List Fileset Capacity of Data in Different Pools

    Using the mmlsfileset command, GUI, or both - add ability to see what is the capacity of the fileset on differnet pools. If a filesystem has different pools ie. system, tier1, tier2, etc... using the mmlsfileset command get the percentage of the f...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Protocols - SMB: SLES as CES node on IBM Power Platform

    We need SMB support on ppc64LE / SLES.SLES has a market share of 99% in HANA on Power.HANA will be the only database for SAP.To use SpectrumScale in HANA environments we need SLES Support for smb.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

    GUI should be quick to load overview pages, and defer the output of slow commands

    F.ex. on the GUI "pools" page, we're experiencing several minute loading time on large systems. It should not be acceptable that it takes this long to load any of the pages, particularly not the initial overview pages. Rather the GUI should only s...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Improve DIO on sparse files to avoid E-HOLE error

    The customer is using Db2 pureScale and allocates tablespace using preallocation.But there are enormous performance issue was caused by the DIO thrashing ( frequent switching back and forth between DIO and Buffered IO ) due to E_HOLE errors.We ana...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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